Topic: DONT FALL FOR THIS SCAM (Read 454 times)
So obvious that this guy is a scammer. Do you really think that someone can buy some tokens, store them in a wallet and totally forget about it? And never check token’s price, and don’t even bother to keep his private keys somewhere in more safe and accessible place, not on an old hard disk. And give the keys to a stranger he met in the web, without checking his wallet beforehand. You must be such a trusting and open hearted person to believe in everything that guy told you.
now a lot of Benches on the market, not to get caught on the Bench need to read a lot, analyze all their actions, constantly monitor everything,if you do not do that then there is a very good chance to get on the Bench, it's not who does not want to read a lot and communicate with people who understand
Well that warned about this situation, thank you very much!
There are a lot of scamming issues coming from ico's right now as well as bounty manager and that is the reason you should always check the current tokens platform before investing or working on their bounty campaign.
Lesson here is don't trust anybody online. Who the hell will give you gift even if you don't know that person. If somebody gives you something or tell you that you will earn 10X your investment, that is 100% scam. Never trust anybody online.
scammers today are smart and more creative just to scam others. if you are not careful you will become a victim. you can only blame your self if you are not careful.
We will consider this as a warning sign. Also, i will avoid that username in discord group. How sad, this guy is actually an expert to scam others using that trick in cryptocurrency. Anyhow, we can still prevent those if we tend to avoid pretentious nice and chill guy like him.
thank you for sharing this experience to us, its always be an big lessons that dont trust anybody who ever it is, especially people you don't know very well. scammers are just waiting some good opportunity to attacks. people that are attract with an easy income is very prone to be scammed or they can easily trick you and steals what you have. because as you can see why that person try to give you something without any return, always be vigilant mate of what you are doing.
First, am always happy when scam methods are exposed. It helps others who are vulnerable to be on their toes. But then to the main point here, this story doesn't quite match up. First someone sends you 'an' old etherium private key he 'found'. So the keys may or may not be his, he sent it to you and you thought to transfer tokens out of this wallet that is neither yours and probably neither his?? At this point, I don't know who is scamming who.
But thanks anyway for revealing these methods so we all can have our eyes open.
But thanks anyway for revealing these methods so we all can have our eyes open.
Absolutely no one can be trusted, it seems all around and want to steal your money in any way, how then to trust people and communicate?!
Well that warned about this situation, thank you very much!
Very interesting story. It shows that we should not believe in opportunities that are very good to be true. For not fair people it is a nice scheme to trick others.
Thanks for your post! It should be in the scam section. Scammers are really good for creating new method for scamming. Don't fall in their traps. Something too good to be truth can't be trusted.
I've known about this scam for a while, people used to run it with Omni tokens, IIRC. I kind of like this scam... as pointed out above, it only hurts people trying to steal those tokens.
Since you got the private key, anyone could write a scrypt that constantly monitors that account and tries to steal his dust before he can, and even those token when they become unlocked.
Since you got the private key, anyone could write a scrypt that constantly monitors that account and tries to steal his dust before he can, and even those token when they become unlocked.
How can you reasonably accept $170k as a gift from anonymous friend on discord? Most time people that get scammed actually deserves it. They try to reap from where they do not sow! Cryptocurrency is secure untill you begin to get yourself expose to danger! I hope you've learnt your lesson!
I've seen something like this before. I was lucky to quickly realize it's a scam and so I had to inform the people around me. So many tactics right there... the tech behind it is something else. Smart scam. I just hope no one fall big for it.
Glad to hear that you got out of it safely. Tthere is a saying that goes by "There is no free lunch.", so someone offering you their assets in the form of crypto falls right into that category. My suggestion to all should be to stay away and don't engage in chats on Telegram, Discord, Slack and alike. It's 99.9% chance if not 100% that they are scammers.
Hahaha seems more you are pranked than a scammed. I've also tried it but I'm different from you, I found some private keys posted on spreadsheet bounty then i try to send some eth for fee and finally, my eth is automatically sent to the primary address. But like in some previous post it's fair enough because you try steal tokens that are not yours hahaha. Cheers!
You are upset because you tried to steal someone else's coins and were outsmarted by him? You are just as much at fault as the person you are blaming. If you hadn't been a greedy thief you would have lost nothing. Your own fault.
Its funny, but actually youre right. The OP are with no difference than the other guy who tried to scam him. Lesson learned, never ever try to lay a hand of something you dont own. In the first place, if the OP didnt touch anything, he will never face such risks. But there's also a good side of what he has done, atleast the OP discovered a new way of scam which has a very unexpected scamming procedure. Neverthless, this will also help the people in the community to be aware to such a new modus.
the need to be vigilant. many tricks that start to appear and certainly has a goal that is not good. Crypto is indeed a broad field and produce. but the risks and deceptions in crypto are everywhere. so this is a challenge that should at least be bypassed.
i don't think that the person who gave you the private key own that address.
he may get from others and he wants to challenge you, if you can steal that tokens.
well, i think you don't know what scam means
he may get from others and he wants to challenge you, if you can steal that tokens.
well, i think you don't know what scam means
You are upset because you tried to steal someone else's coins and were outsmarted by him? You are just as much at fault as the person you are blaming. If you hadn't been a greedy thief you would have lost nothing. Your own fault.
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